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DlTCHINGHAM 



Profit and Loss on each year 



Loss 







32 ii 10 

 o 10 6 



173 19 9 



Bedingham. Cash Account. Michaelmas, , 1897 



DR. 



. . 

 To Capital 700 o o 



CR. 



By Valuation of Live and 

 Dead Stock, Covenants, 

 and Corn, Michaelmas, 

 1897 



,, Cash at Bank. . . . 



,, Mr. Haggard's account 1 



,, Balance (loss) 



1895 

 1896 

 1897 



700 o c 



BEDINGHAM 



Profit and Loss on each year 

 Profit 



* < 



655 17 o 



6 17 ii 



20 6 7 



16 18 6 



700 o o 



Net loss on three years 



Loss 



* * 



I 9 3 5 



102 4 II 



16 18 6 



From these accounts it will be seen that in my three years' 

 farming at Bedingham I have up to Michaelmas 1897 incurred a 

 net loss of i6/. iSs. 6d. To this deficit, however, should be added 

 loss of rent at say 105-. per acre for three years 153/. (in 1868 it 

 let for 1357. a year !), and loss of interest on 7oo/. at 5 per cent, 

 for three years 1057. So, without the advantage of winning a daily 



1 Since paid. 



